The parents of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi said they think the jury in the trial of the roommate who spied on him got it right by convicting him of hate crimes and other offenses.

Last week saw Dharun Ravi convicted of most of the serious counts against him including bias intimidation and invasion of privacy for setting up a video to catch his roommate kissing another man. Tyler committed suicide shortly after.

His father Joseph Clementi said: 'They reached their decision based on the facts shown by the evidence. At the conclusion of the trial, the defense's explanation of what happened was simply not believable.'

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Explanation: Dharun Ravi spoke to ABC's 20/20 to reveal the second spying incident, which was said to be crucial to his conviction, was not his idea but another students

Parents: Jane and Joe Clementi say they are happy with the verdict the jury came to

The jury found that Ravi knowingly and
purposefully intimidated Clementi because of his sexual orientation and
that Clementi believed he was being targeted out of bias.

He is appealing his convictions.

While some believe that jail time is too harsh a punishment for Ravi, 20, the other man in the live video who Tyler was kissing, said he deserves prison time for what he did.

The lawyer representing the man, known as M.B. in court to protect his identity, told The Record of Bergen County: 'If the judge simply gave him probation, he would feel that this case escaped justice.'

This is the first time M.B. and the Clementi family have spoken out since the press conference last week after the verdicts were read out.

This week Ravi, who faces up to ten years when he's sentenced on May 21, gave interviews to say he knows he acted inappropriately setting up the webcam in his room when Tyler deserved privacy.

Vacant: Ravi, left, showed no emotion when the verdict was red out in court convicting him of most of the serious counts of bias intimidation and invasion of privacy towards former roommate Tyler Clementi, right

He spoke of his remorse and insisted he did not bear any hatred toward gay people.

Speaking
to ABC's 20/20, in an interview which will be aired tonight, he
revealed that the second spying incident wasn't his plan but was
suggested by another student who wanted to see the other man involved.

Ravi had described him as a 'really weird guy' with a 'mean expression on his face'.

He
told ABC's Chris Cuomo: 'That actually wasn't my idea. This kid, he
wanted to see the guy, so he says, "Oh you should have your webcam like
it was on Sunday so I can see who this guy is".'

During
the trial, Rutgers student Lokesh Ojha described how he helped Ravi
position his webcam so it was pointed directly at Clementi's bed.

At
least one of the jurors said after the trial that it was the second
spying incident that convinced her of his guilt, saying: 'A reasonable
person would have closed it and ended it there.'

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In
the interview, Ravi also reveals he doesn't believe that it was his
action that led to Tyler's death and that he didn't think he 'cared at
all'.

'The more and more I found out, it would
be kind of obnoxious of me to think that I could have this profound
effect on him,' he said.

'After all this time and reading his conversations and how
and what he was doing before, I really don't think he cared at all. I
feel like I was an insignificant part to his life. That's giving me
comfort now.

'Even though I wasn’t the one who caused him to jump off the bridge, I
did do things wrong and I was stupid about a lot of stuff. I was very self-absorbed with the whole thing.'

In an earlier interview with The Star-Ledger from his family's home in Plainsboro, New Jersey, Ravi acknowledged a gross
lack of judgement when he set up a webcam in his dorm room in September
2010 and captured his roommate Clementi kissing another man.

Prosecutors said Ravi then tweeted about it, and excitedly tried to catch Clementi in the act again two days later.

'Comfort': Dharun Ravi, 20, said after reading the court material on Tyler Clementi's conversations he did not feel his actions drove the 18-year-old Rutgers student to suicide

Support: Ravi is led by his father through the scrum of media after they leave court after the verdicts on 15 counts were read out

Within days, Clementi realised he had
been watched and leapt from the George Washington Bridge after posting
one last status update on Facebook: 'Jumping off the gw [George Washington] bridge, sorry.'

In hindsight, Ravi said he realised that he had played a part in tormenting Clementi.

'I never really thought about what it would mean to Tyler,' he said. 'I know that’s wrong, but that’s the truth. The last time I saw him he seemed completely normal. We didn’t say much, and then he was gone.'

'I'm very sorry about Tyler,' he
continued. 'I have parents and a little brother, and I can only try to
imagine how they feel. But I want the Clementis to know I had no problem
with their son.

'I didn’t hate Tyler and I knew he was okay with me. I
wanted to talk to his parents, but I was afraid. I didn’t know what to
say.'

Comfort: Defense attorney Steven Altman puts his arm around his client Dharun Ravi as they leave the Superior Court of New Jersey in Middlesex County, New Brunswick

Lighthearted moment: Dharun Ravi sits with defense attorneys Steven Altman, right, and Philip Nettl while awaiting a verdict in his trial at the Superior Court of New Jersey

And while Ravi vows that he is
changed, no longer so insensitive and immature, he denied his actions
were motivated by any malice toward his roomate or other gays - a
necessary element to prove a hate crime.

'I’m not the same person I was two years ago. I don’t even recognise the person I was two years ago,' he said.

'But I wasn't biased,' he told The Star-Ledger. 'I didn’t act out of hate and I wasn’t uncomfortable with Tyler being gay.'

Ravi's lawyer argued that point during
his trial his trial, insisting his client's actions were just those of an
immature 'kid'.

A string of students testified they
never heard Ravi say anything bad about gays in general or Clementi in
particular. But students did say Ravi expressed some concern about
sharing a room with a gay man.

On September 19, according to
testimony, Clementi asked Ravi to leave their room so that he could have
a guest. Later, Ravi posted on Twitter: 'Roommate asked for the room
till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw
him making out with a dude. Yay.'

Mystery witness: A man who identifies himself only as M.B. told the court during the trial that he noticed the webcam in Clementi and Ravi's room and that he and Clementi met on a gay dating website

Ravi told police that he viewed only seconds of the encounter via computer. His friend Molly Wei testified that she and a few other students also watched the live stream of the men kissing.

Wei was initially charged in the case
but was later accepted into a pretrial program that will allow her to
keep her record clean.

Two nights later, Clementi asked for
the room alone again. This time, Ravi tweeted: 'I dare you to video chat
me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes, it's happening again.'

Ravi also texted a friend about a
planned 'viewing party' and, two students said, went to friends' dorm
rooms to show them how to access the feed.

However, there was no evidence the
webcam was turned on that night. Ravi told police he had put his
computer to sleep. Prosecutors argued Clementi himself unplugged the
computer.

According to testimony, Clementi submitted a room-change request form and talked to a resident assistant about what happened.

He also used his laptop to view Ravi's
Twitter site 38 times in the last two days of his life. He killed
himself on September 22.

Testimony in Ravi's trial came from about 30 witnesses over 12 days, including the man seen kissing Clementi.

Vacation time: James, left, Tyler and middle brother Brian Clementi, right, on holiday together as a family

Grief: Stone-faced Joseph and Jane Clementi sit in the courtroom before during the 12-day trial

Parents: Joe and Jane Clementi have only
recently decided to grant interviews to the media in an effort to
promote the foundation they're launching in their late 18-year-old son's
honour

Prosecutors were not allowed to argue
directly that the spying led to his death; defense lawyers were barred
from saying there were other reasons he killed himself.

Ravi was not charged with causing
Clementi's death, and the suicide remained largely in the background at
the trial, though some witnesses mentioned it and the jury was told
Clementi had taken his life.

The 20-year-old could now be deported to
his native India, even though he has lived legally in the U.S. since he
was a little boy, for his part in an act that cast a spotlight on teen
suicide and anti-gay bullying and illustrated the internet's potential
for tormenting others.

He turned down a plea deal that
would have kept him out of jail, but which would have required him to
admit to charges of bias intimidation.

It's a decision, however, he says he will never regret.

'If I took the plea, I would have had
to testify that I did what I did to intimidate Tyler and that would be a
lie. I won’t ever get up there and tell the world I hated Tyler because
he was gay, or tell the world I was trying to hurt or intimidate him
because it’s not true,' he told The Star-Ledger.

VERDICT IN FULL

COUNT 2: Invasion of Privacy with the purpose to intimidate Tyler Clementi because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy with the purpose to intimidate M.B. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause Tyler Clementi to
be intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause M.B. to be
intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, under
circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and
considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi
reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense
because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

COUNT 4:Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate Tyler Clementi because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate M.B. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause Tyler Clementi to
be intimidated because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause M.B. to be
intimidated, because of sexual orientation: ACQUITTED

Invasion of Privacy, under
circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and
considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi
reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense
because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

COUNT 6: Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate Tyler Clementi because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate M.B. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause Tyler Clementi to
be intimated because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause M.B. to be
intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, under
circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and
considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi
reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense
because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

COUNT 8: Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate Tyler Clementi because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, with the purpose to intimidate M.B. because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause Tyler Clementi to
be intimidated because of sexual orientation: GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, knowing that the
conduct constituting invasion of privacy would cause M.B. to be
intimidated because of sexual orientation: NOT GUILTY

Invasion of Privacy, under
circumstances that caused Tyler Clementi to be intimidated, and
considering the manner in which the offense was committed, Clementi
reasonably believed that he was selected to be the target of the offense
because of sexual orientation: GUILTY